It’s a fresh take on history’s giants
Most of us have learned the grand stories of the American revolution — Valley Forge and Bunker Hill and crossing the Delaware and more.
Many of them were epic; most were true. “What I learned in school was not wrong,” David Schmidt said. “It was just incomplete.”
Now the story gets filled out, in depth. PBS’ “The American Revolution” — a sprawling saga, produced by Ken Burns (see previous story),, Sara Botstein and Schmidt — is at 8 p.m. (repeating at 10) for six nights, starting Sunday, Nov. 16. Read more…